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EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, which ranks among the top four institutions nationally for National Institutes of Health grant funding and among the top 25 organizations worldwide for its research impact, has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform for its wide range of initiatives into Alzheimer’s, cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases.

Using the Isilon NL-Series and SyncIQ asynchronous replication software, Sanford-Burnham has deployed clusters at campuses in La Jolla, California and Orlando, Florida, providing hundreds of scientists with a single, highly redundant, shared storage resource for their file-based data and applications. With Isilon, Sanford-Burnham has been able to consolidate many previously disparate data silos onto a single file system and point of management, simplifying its IT infrastructure to increase data reliability and accelerate medical discovery.

“Our scientists operate pretty independently, which enables a much wider breadth of research, but also made centralizing our storage infrastructure very difficult,” said Eric Hicks, director of IT, Sanford-Burnham. “We tried to standardize on a traditional NAS system, but it was simply too expensive to scale. By consolidating all our file-based data on Isilon, we’ve significantly reduced management time and costs, while giving our scientists a single platform for all their needs, meaning they can work faster – and with bigger data sets – without worrying about storage.”

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